The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Who called up the corner hounds and why didn't anyone notice...?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 13, 2020, 04:51:50 PM ---If it were that easy then we could be ass deep in Outsiders, the Gates exist for a purpose, and make it difficult to whistle in the Outsiders.
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Well, it sort of is.. page 202 Blood Rites paperback Harry talking to Ms Vixen
--- Quote ---"Oh," she said, regaining her composure. "You underestimate my powers."
I snorted. "You haven't got any powers."
"Yes, I do. I've killed with them."
"You've killed with a ritual,"I said.
"What's the difference?"
"The difference," I said, "is that if you have any skill of your own magic, you don't need a ritual." "Whatever. They're the same thing anyway. Magic. Power."
"No," I said. "Look, a ritual spell like that doesn't have anything to do with you. It's like a cosmic vending machine. You put two quarters in, push the right button, and a curse comes flying out, courtesy of some psychotic otherworldly force that enjoys that kind of thing. It doesn't take skill. It doesn't take talent. You could be a freaking monkey and invoke that curse just as well."
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With a little help from the above ritual, Madge [a low level sorceress] called up He Who Walks Behind.
Bad Alias:
We don't know that the corner hounds have anything to do with time travel in the DF. It's likely but not confirmed. And if it does, I doubt Harry knows.
I wouldn't be surprised if people have just stopped asking Harry where his new injuries come from.
Summoning Outsiders points to the Black Council. Harry might just let Eb decide whether or not to bring that up in front of a bunch of young wardens. It'd be different if it was just Ramirez.
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 13, 2020, 01:20:03 AM ---This thread should be re-titled along the lines of “Who Let The Dogs Out, Who, Who, Who, Who ....”
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Your jokes are terrible, and I love them.
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 13, 2020, 06:04:36 PM ---I'm currently assuming that BG ends with another cliff hanger into Mirror Mirror.
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I really hope not.
I'm not sure if they ex-wives' club summoned HHWBehind. I think it might have been a partial summoning. And Madge was a practitioner of some skill.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: vultur on August 13, 2020, 06:29:31 PM ---(I think there's also an Outsider in the graphic novel "War Cry", but I haven't seen that one...)
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That one, at least, was called up by Peabody -- so not just a random schlub.
vultur:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 13, 2020, 07:03:13 PM ---Summoning Outsiders points to the Black Council. Harry might just let Eb decide whether or not to bring that up in front of a bunch of young wardens. It'd be different if it was just Ramirez.
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Yeah, that's a good point too.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on August 13, 2020, 07:03:13 PM ---I'm not sure if they ex-wives' club summoned HHWBehind.
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Not exactly, at least that's not what they were trying to accomplish, but it's basically what happened. The ritual was interrupted, and instead of getting the desired effect (killer entropy curse), HWWBehind showed up.
--- Quote ---I think it might have been a partial summoning.
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Probably something like that, the manifestation of HWWBehind wasn't anything like the one Justin summoned (as seen in Harry's memories in GS). In BR he might not have had full access to his powers in the mortal world, maybe?
TheCuriousFan:
--- Quote from: vultur on August 13, 2020, 06:29:31 PM ---- The "evil eye cult" summoned HWWBehind in BR... though he didn't actually attack, just threatened Harry, so I'm not sure he was 100% "there" in a physically capable form.
- Peabody's mistfiend in TC was probably an Outsider (it's said to be "from the far reaches of the Nevernever", but a later book calls it an Outsider. At the very least, it's Outside-connected due to mordite.)
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--- Quote ---First was Madge's body. As I turned to leave, it suddenly sat up. Spines protruded from its skin, along with rivulets of slow, dead blood. Its face was ravaged shapeless, but it formed up into the features of the demon called He Who Walks Behind, and its mouth spoke in a honey-smooth, honey-sweet, inhuman voice. "I am returned, mortal man," the demon said through Madge's dead lips. "And I remember thee. Thou and I, we have unfinished business between us."
Then there was a bubbling hiss, and the corpse deflated like an empty balloon.
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He seemed there enough to go with an "I'm back" taunt instead of anything else. Not sure what he's been up to since Blood Rites.
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